The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom. — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
One faith, one law and one standard of justice did not mean democracy. The heresy of democracy has since then worked havoc… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards. — John McCain Copy Share Image
We in the United States are very often - since we are a democracy and we have national interests, we've often made… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
